A 19-year-old Honduran woman who wanted to give birth to her second child in the United States had a son within 24 hours of climbing the border wall.

Maryury Elizabeth Serrano-Hernandez, 19, went into labor November 27, less than 24 hours after she climbed over the border fence in Tijuana with her husband, 20, and two-year-old son.

'With the faith in God, I always said my son will be born there [in the United States] because he will be born there,' Serrano-Hernandez told Univision.

She is believed to be the first member of the migrant caravan to give birth after crossing to the U.S. to seek asylum.

Serrano-Hernandez and her family were detained by agents from the Imperial Beach Station in San Diego County on November 26.

A spokesperson with the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agency told DailyMail.com: 'The woman, who was eight months pregnant, began complaining of abdominal pain Tuesday and was immediately transported to a local hospital by Border Patrol agents.'

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Maryury Elizabeth Serrano-Hernandez (left) went into labor on November 27 and gave birth to Michael Ortiz, believed to be the first baby born in the United States to a member of the migrant caravan seeking asylum

Miguel Ortiz (left) and his wife Maryury Elizabeth Serrano-Hernandez (right with baby Michael) climbed over a border fence in Tijuana on November 26 with their two-year-old son and were detained by border patrol officers

The young Honduran family was released from an immigration detention site on Sunday night

Miguel Ortiz is wearing an ankle monitor as immigration officials track their movement during the asylum process

Her husband, Miguel Ortiz told Telemundo San Diego that immigration officials tried to place handcuffs on the mother while she rested on the hospital bed moments after she had been brought out of the operating room but nurses resisted the attempt.

Nurses also held a fundraising collection but once Serrano-Hernandez and her family returned to the detention center, their property was confiscated.

'They got him pampers, wipes, clothing, a coat. All of that stuff,' she said. 'But they [the nurses] told me that they couldn't confiscate the clothes and the pampers because that's what a baby needs the most.'

The family of four was released from the immigration detention center on Sunday night and are being housed by a family before they can move to Columbus, Ohio where they will continue their asylum proceeding at a court.

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President Donald Trump has vowed to stop migrants entering the U.S., sending troops to reinforce the border and attempting a procedural change, so far denied by the courts, to require asylum-seekers to remain in Mexico while their cases are heard.

Frustrated and exhausted after weeks of uncertainty, many of the migrants have become desperate since getting stuck in squalid camps in the Mexican border city of Tijuana.

Serrano-Hernandez and her family started their journey to America in mid-October when the first wave of the massive caravan set out from Honduras and lingered in Guatemala before the Mexican government caved in and let scores of Central American migrants walk through its southern border. She was already heavily pregnant at this point.

A pregnant Maryury Elizabeth Serrano-Hernandez settled inside a tent on a sidewalk in Tijuana in November with her husband and two-year-old son before they made it to the U.S.

Miguel Ortiz (second from left) and his wife Maryury Elizabeth Serrano-Hernandez sit inside a truck with their two-year-old son as they traveled towards Tijuana

The Honduran woman joined other migrant caravan members aboard a truck (pictured) which was normally used to transport pigs across Mexico

Their journey, which has been followed by Univision, has seen them sleeping in a tent on a sidewalk, being transported in a crowded livestock truck that would usually be used to transport pigs.

Last week, Ortiz and his pregnant wife decided it was the perfect time to climb the border wall.

They climbed over a fence and safely touched American soil. The three Hondurans walked up a dirt hill before they were met by border patrol agents from a nearby station.

Ortiz, who is wearing an ankle monitor, recalled the agents asked them to return back to Tijuana but he and his wife declined the immigration officers' request, turning themselves in.

The immigration officials at first didn't buy Serrano-Hernandez's claims that she was pregnant as her labor contractions started to increase and felt more painful.

Central American migrants have been scaling the border wall in Tijuana in recent weeks